Politics

Bloomberg The US will keep pressing its European allies to take back citizens caught fighting for IS in Syria if they’re released, National Security Adviser John Bolton said. The fate of the estimated 800 to 1,000 captives taken by Kurdish militias in northeastern Syria has been a sore point since President Donald Trump tweeted in February that the UK, France, ...

Bloomberg Juan Guaido’s first stop after he skipped out of Venezuela last week was Colombia. But after he failed to push food and medicine across the borders to hasten the end of autocratic President Nicolas Maduro’s rule, he headed to Brazil. Now, he’s in Argentina following meetings in Paraguay, and is expected to head to Ecuador on Saturday to be ...

Bloomberg Pressure built on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison after a second lawmaker quit in as many days, just weeks ahead of an upcoming national election. Defense Minister Christopher Pyne said on Saturday that he will retire at the election. Steven Ciobo, in charge of the defense industry portfolio, also said that he won’t re-contest his seat. Ciobo’s resignation makes ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump had a rough week. His former lawyer told a House committee that the president is a cheat and a racist who has committed fraud, hours before Trump returned empty-handed from a high-stakes summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Hanoi. Yet just down the Potomac River from Washington, at an annual gathering of influential conservatives, none of ...

Bloomberg Europe’s main political family moved closer to a showdown with its most troublesome member, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, over his increasingly euroskeptic behavior. The European Union’s Christian Democrats sent two sets of warnings to Orban and his Fidesz party, signaling a greater determination to confront populist forces in the run-up to EU legislative elections in May. Manfred Weber, ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron said that grassroots Yellow Vests protests are no longer comprehensible and that “the country needs a return to calm.” “I hope that the weeks to come will show a decline” in the Yellow Vests movement, Macron said in Bordeaux. He spoke during a session that was part of a series of national public debates he ...

Bloomberg India said an air force pilot was missing after Pakistan said it had shot down two Indian fighter jets, as relations between the arch rivals worsened amid the possibility of a full blown war. India has yet to ascertain that the missing pilot is in Pakistan’s custody, said Raveesh Kumar, foreign ministry spokesman in a media briefing in New ...

Bloomberg Egypt’s prime minister vowed swift accountability and an end to the “age of ignoring negligence,” as the death toll from the capital’s worst train crash in years climbed to 25. Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly spoke as authorities launched an investigation into what caused the train to collide with the barrier at the end of the track in downtown Cairo’s ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un sounded an optimistic note at the start of their second set of face-to-face meetings in eight months, as the US leader sought to advance nuclear talks that have largely stalled since their first summit in June. The two leaders shook hands and made brief remarks ahead of a one-on-one meeting at ...

Bloomberg Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari won a second term as president of Africa’s biggest oil producer with promises to revive an anemic economy and tackle security threats including a devastating war against insurgents loyal to IS. His main opponent rejected the results. The defeated rival, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday said he will go to court to contest Independent National Electoral Commission ...